Homebrew Best SNES emulator?

[misticknight]

If it helps ive got a Supercard DSTwo with the stock SFC emulator on it (v 1.05). Just wandering which emulator (i guess it'd just be between the SCDStwo one and Snemul DS) is the best? Specifically i want to run Lufia 2 and the DKC games.

 

[elgarta]

The only other emulator for the DS is CATSFC. A search on google will likely find links and what-not. It has better compatability, but I personally didn't find it to be very good.

 

[misticknight]

fair enough, thanks for the quick reply. ill give it a go, otherwise i guess ill stick with PSP emulation, though i like playing SNES games on a Nintendo handheld...makes it seem more official somehow. PLus the DSi buttons are much better than the PSP Go's.

 

[Janthran]

The only other emulator for the DS is CATSFC. A search on google will likely find links and what-not. It has better compatability, but I personally didn't find it to be very good.

There's NDS SFC, snemul, and CATSFC.

 

[Rydian]

PSP's better than all the options for the DS, I'd stick with it for emulation in general.

 

[elgarta]

The only other emulator for the DS is CATSFC. A search on google will likely find links and what-not. It has better compatability, but I personally didn't find it to be very good.

There's NDS SFC, snemul, and CATSFC.

Whoops, sorry. I'd only seen the 2 of them around >.

 

[WiiUBricker]

There are

• SNEmulDS
  • Works with all flash carts
  • Doesn't have an input-output delay
  • Speedhacks
  • Has layering issues, sound issues and the worst compatibility of the 4 emulators
  • Development is practically halted/dead
• NDSSFC
  • Somewhat good compatibility
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead
• BAGSFC
  • Better compatibility than NDSSFC
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead
• CATSFC
  • Best compatibility (still not perfect)
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead

Did I miss something?

 

[misticknight]

It's aight ive decided to just use my PSPGo instead. its a bit annoying tbh but its better than nothing. thanks for the detailed post though lol.

 

[RyuKisargi]

Thanks guys for keeping this current, I was going to make a post asking about emulators for a friend.

I guess he's stuck with his crappy PSP or Wii.


As for me, the iOS emulators run fairly well.




Also, why did those folk just give up? It seems like the DS could handle legacy emulation a lot better than the PSP, and the PSP works 90% now.

 

[BasedKiliK]

Also, why did those folk just give up? It seems like the DS could handle legacy emulation a lot better than the PSP, and the PSP works 90% now.

DS either doesn't have the power, or coding the emulators was simply proving to be too difficult.

 

[RyuKisargi]

I see. That's kind of disappointing, I remember the same thing being said about the PSP too back in the day.

I guess I figured as we all grew up with the DS, so would the coders.

 

[Alaude]

the snes emulation in PSP is quite good as of now.

 

[Janthran]

The only other emulator for the DS is CATSFC. A search on google will likely find links and what-not. It has better compatability, but I personally didn't find it to be very good.

What about BAGSFC and NDSSFC?
Or SNESDS or SNEMUL?
>_>

EDIT: I didn't see WiiBricker's post. Sorry.
But yeah, there's also SNESDS.

 

[RyuKisargi]

There are

• SNEmulDS
  • Works with all flash carts
  • Doesn't have an input-output delay
  • Speedhacks
  • Has layering issues, sound issues and the worst compatibility of the 4 emulators
  • Development is practically halted/dead
• NDSSFC
  • Somewhat good compatibility
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead
• BAGSFC
  • Better compatibility than NDSSFC
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead
• CATSFC
  • Best compatibility (still not perfect)
  • Cheats feature
  • Works with Supercard DSTwo only
  • No speedhacks
  • Annoying input-output delay
  • Development halted/dead

Did I miss something?

Someone made this up, read up a bit.

 

[DanTheManMS]

Also, why did those folk just give up? It seems like the DS could handle legacy emulation a lot better than the PSP, and the PSP works 90% now.

The difference in relative processing power between the DS and the PSP is much larger than you think. SNEmulDS is probably very close to the upper limit on how good it could be on stock DS hardware alone, while the DS:TWO's emulators use the cart's extra processing power to run a port of snes9x (the same one that was ported to the PSP as well).

 

[Rydian]

Also, why did those folk just give up? It seems like the DS could handle legacy emulation a lot better than the PSP, and the PSP works 90% now.

lolwut

The PSP's way more powerful than the DS, and it's got a higher resolution so it doesn't even need to downscale (so it wouldn't even need to be as complex visually).

 

[Geren]

There are

• SNEmulDS
  • Development is practically halted/dead

Did I miss something?

I don't think that it has stopped altogether, it seems that we don't now too much about it. I recall seeing a post where alekmaul said h was working in a snes library for the ds.

 

[Deleted-236924]

But yeah, there's also SNESDS.

SNESDS isn't even worth mentioning.

 

[WiiUBricker]

There are

• SNEmulDS
  • Development is practically halted/dead

Did I miss something?

I don't think that it has stopped altogether, it seems that we don't now too much about it. I recall seeing a post where alekmaul said h was working in a snes library for the ds.

Well, according to this development halted on March 5th.